tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.comments2016-10-29T23:12:46.580+09:00Plight of the Unpeopleeditorsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-19962646172538069852015-08-06T08:27:40.983+09:002015-08-06T08:27:40.983+09:00The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was the greatest w...The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was the greatest war crime in world history, following closely by the absolutely inexcusable bombing of Nagasaki three days later. Just minutes ago, I heard once again from my home here in Japan the siren that sounds every year at 8:15am on August 6th as a reminder of the hundreds of thousands murdered by the American bomb. It is truly disgusting that so much of the media in war-loving America continues to use this day to perpetuate the myth that the bombs were in any way justifiable. One day, hopefully not soon, we will see another nuclear atrocity, most likely by the most dangerous and out-of-control country in the world, and this will happen mostly due to America&#39;s arrogance and greed but also because so many people have been convinced that what the US did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki can ever be acceptable.hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14696851045403500136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-24357292794802923472009-02-19T00:43:00.000+09:002009-02-19T00:43:00.000+09:00And still many people are parroting the right of I...And still many people are parroting the right of Israel to self-defence. Of course Israel have a right to defend themselves - but they aren&#39;t defending themselves at all. They are on the offensive against innocent Palestinians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-20575115218712192752009-03-13T16:46:00.000+09:002009-03-13T16:46:00.000+09:00Barkley is a bit late as far as coming to his sens...Barkley is a bit late as far as coming to his senses and discovering that the war is wrong. How many hundreds of thousands or even millions of innocent people would not been murdered by the US if only more Americans had not been as ignorant as Charles Barkley?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-15798837603141953732009-03-13T23:04:00.000+09:002009-03-13T23:04:00.000+09:00Israel&#39;s illegal and inhumane blockade has not...Israel&#39;s illegal and inhumane blockade has nothing to do with security and everything to do with humiliating and degrading the people of Gaza. Israel is trying to make life as miserable as possible for the innocent and helpless inhabitants of the Gaza Ghetto.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-37297999228018335922009-03-14T11:43:00.000+09:002009-03-14T11:43:00.000+09:00Australians, the police in particular, need to tre...Australians, the police in particular, need to treat Aborigines like humans and show them the respect they deserve. Most Australians act as if Aborigines do not even exist and they spend far too much energy excusing their past crimes against the indigenous people and to little energy righting past wrongs and making life better for all citizens, not just the white ones.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-30816748492667983982009-03-16T09:27:00.000+09:002009-03-16T09:27:00.000+09:00Palestinians, even if they wanted to leave (and th...Palestinians, even if they wanted to leave (and they obviously do not), cannot so what Israel is doing (and they know it) is gradual genocide. They are trying to starve the Palestinian people to death.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-88849866991709310262009-03-16T09:53:00.000+09:002009-03-16T09:53:00.000+09:00&quot;CRIF and its leaders since 2000 must ask the...&quot;CRIF and its leaders since 2000 must ask themselves about their level of responsibility when they knowingly act to identify every Jew in France with the acts of the occupation, settlements, the closure, war crimes and human rights violations of the Israeli government.&quot;<br><br>This can be said about many governmental and non-governmental groups in other countries as well. Many Jews, including myself, do not support the Israeli government or its military and do not wish to be associated with Israeli war crimes, its occupation of Palestinian land and other atrocities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-53539663901471985592009-04-09T23:25:00.000+09:002009-04-09T23:25:00.000+09:00It is good to hear about a rare case of someone in...It is good to hear about a rare case of someone in Japan expressing their displeasure with the ridiculous American military presence. If only it could have been something a bit stronger than coffee. Americans, we don&#39;t need you. Go home!!!I.K.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-12032733986060842552009-04-12T17:47:00.000+09:002009-04-12T17:47:00.000+09:00This report has the potential to piss off just abo...This report has the potential to piss off just about everyone concerned. The Israelis get their myth exposed and soiled and the Palestinians find out that they are actually Jews. Beautiful.Ted Blackwellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-63328264830820352922009-04-17T21:26:00.000+09:002009-04-17T21:26:00.000+09:00Your comments about Magen David Adom are a blatant...Your comments about Magen David Adom are a blatant exaggeration. Within Israel Magen David Adom is made up of personnel from all sectors of the country&#39;s population: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Arab, Druze, etc. In the West Bank, MDA was instrumental in the formation and training of the Palestinian Red Crescent and the two medical first responder services maintain close communications. EXAMPLE: When the PRC was unable to help children striken in a Ramallah classroom last year, MDA sent an ambulance and paramedics from Jerusalem, escorted by the Palestinian police force, to stabilize the children and transport them to Sheba Medical Center in Israel where they were treated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-77824764599966189272009-04-17T23:04:00.000+09:002009-04-17T23:04:00.000+09:00I find it interesting that, despite the indignant ...I find it interesting that, despite the indignant tone of the first comment, the commenter writes nothing that contradicts the offending point. I do not know enough about the ambulance service in question to add anything, but the fact that the commenter calls this bit in the article an &quot;exaggeration&quot; but does not say that it is false reinforces my belief that Mr Dover&#39;s description of the situation is accurate. Of course, another reason to believe Mr Dover and to doubt the commenter is that Mr Dover is actually reporting from the occupied territories and meeting people who are affected by the racist Israeli apartheid system as opposed to the commenter who is undoubtedly sitting at a computer in the comfort of his home in Miami or New York or some other city in the US with plenty of food, access to medical care, and freedom from daily threats of violence based on his ethnicity.J. Pleconoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-63265510431719523302009-05-24T11:57:48.930+09:002009-05-24T11:57:48.930+09:00We&#39;re working to get a video of the day&#39;s ...We&#39;re working to get a video of the day&#39;s events edited together and it will be up by 0700GMT at www.palfest.org/video.htmlOmar Hamiltonhttp://www.palfest.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-76062542551855467932009-05-29T13:42:05.967+09:002009-05-29T13:42:05.967+09:00:|:|Sukainahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12182369390657705771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-36622290379146673832009-05-29T13:48:46.462+09:002009-05-29T13:48:46.462+09:00Would you care to elaborate?Would you care to elaborate?editorhttp://theunpeople.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-58427892286370844402009-06-07T08:59:55.857+09:002009-06-07T08:59:55.857+09:00I appreciate Mr Avnery&#39;s optimism regarding Pr...I appreciate Mr Avnery&#39;s optimism regarding President Obama and the situation in Palestine/Israel, but I must respectfully disagree with his glowing assessment of the speech in Cairo. While I am quite ignorant about the Israeli oppression of Palestine compared with Mr Avnery and therefore cannot argue with the great man on those points, I would like to say that, as long as the US and Mr Obama have troops occupying parts of Iraq and Afghanistan (as well as Japan, Korea, Cuba, etc.), I cannot see how any speech by an American president, regardless of the content or the man&#39;s facial expressions and appearance of sincerity, can truly mean a thing. Those troops speak far louder than any words can and they say that America thinks it has a devine right to dominate the world through their great military might. Power and justification are two very different things. America has no right to be invading and occupying other countries. America needs to get out of the Middle East and also to remove their troops from all other countries as well. Then, maybe we can begin to trust Mr Obama and the US.ejhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-39693725211301052302009-06-14T09:54:25.009+09:002009-06-14T09:54:25.009+09:00The era of winks is over? Do you really believe t...The era of winks is over? Do you really believe that? Obama&#39;s Cairo speech was nothing but a series of winks. For example, &quot;The Palestinians must renounce violence.&quot;, while not mentioning Israeli violence, the abundance of largely unreported Palestinian non-violent demonstrations in places such as Nil&#39;in, America&#39;s own use of violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. Are there not a few winks there from this &quot;Afro-American&quot; president, the man Mr Avnery thinks does not understand winks? Obama may be pretty, but he is not different from the ugly white men that he follows as president. He will certainly wink. He already has. I fear that Mr Avnery has become blinded for his overwhelming desire for peace and cannot see the reality of Obama&#39;s cynicism and greed. We must remember that Obama is a politician and an American president first. Nothing but projection and protecting of American power matters to him. He will only make efforts to help the Palestinians and bring a fair peace to Palestine/Israel if he believes that it will mean an increase in American power to do so.ejhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-67743263097041495122009-06-17T21:24:14.861+09:002009-06-17T21:24:14.861+09:00Thank you for commenting. I think most of us are ...Thank you for commenting. I think most of us are ill-informed when it comes to the situation in Iran and that is why Robert Fisk is so valuable. He may be the only English-speaking reporter in the world with the language skills, experience, and knowledge of the region neccessary to bring us this kind of firsthand coverage of the events in Iran. Also, unlike so many other &quot;journalists&quot;, Mr Fisk is unbiased and unafraid and cannot be bought or manipulated by governments. We will continue to post anything we can find by Robert Fisk here at Plight of the Unpeople. Thank you for reading.editorhttp://theunpeople.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-66569038101704671892009-07-11T06:07:51.942+09:002009-07-11T06:07:51.942+09:00There is no justification to climb this rock again...There is no justification to climb this rock against the wishes of the traditional inhabitants! Respect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-31569413560585158032009-07-13T10:11:20.932+09:002009-07-13T10:11:20.932+09:00Rejecting a Cohen concert in Ramallah strikes me a...Rejecting a Cohen concert in Ramallah strikes me as totally stupid. The only cure for hatred is love; more hatred isn&#39;t going to do it. Eleanor Roosevelt once said it was better to &quot;light a candle than curse the darkness.&quot; For better or worse, the Palestinians need to gain increasing public support around the world. This kind of reject of a gesture of reconciliation is just going to alienate peoplePeterhttp://petercat.umich.edunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-36003194812426877002009-08-08T12:15:06.340+09:002009-08-08T12:15:06.340+09:00As I am neither British nor Iranian, I had never b...As I am neither British nor Iranian, I had never before heard of Mr Guppy, but I must say he appears to be a man worth listening to. Maybe it is necessary to have a background in both cultures to fully understand them. <br><br>Mr Guppy has summed up the situation beautifully. It is sad that people allow the media and their governments to distort their views of Iran to the point that many would be willing to go to war.EJHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-52962983965585347492009-09-13T12:08:11.346+09:002009-09-13T12:08:11.346+09:00A petition to Governor Rick Perry and the State of...<a href="http://camerontoddwillingham.com/?page_id=6" rel="nofollow">A petition to Governor Rick Perry and the State of Texas</a> to acknowledge that the fire in the Cameron Todd Willingham case was not arson, therefore no crime was committed and on February 17, 2004, Texas executed an innocent man.Texas Moratorium Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00080688585101692480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-15536275489165871072009-09-28T13:19:04.416+09:002009-09-28T13:19:04.416+09:00Try and get a visa to New Zealand mate. You won&#3...Try and get a visa to New Zealand mate. You won&#39;t get far!!Tim Spooner, Aucklandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-44324260668884650162009-09-28T13:30:58.634+09:002009-09-28T13:30:58.634+09:00Why do you say that, Mr Spooner? Does it have to ...Why do you say that, Mr Spooner? Does it have to do with the poor treatment of the Maori?EJHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-44161391776909666732009-10-12T11:45:09.823+09:002009-10-12T11:45:09.823+09:00&quot;Comedian Joe Dolce scored a worldwide hit wi...&quot;Comedian Joe Dolce scored a worldwide hit with his song &#39;Shaddap-a-your-face&#39; a ditty spoofing his Italian broken English. A Greek-Australian comedy group filled theatres throughout the country with its play &#39;Wogs Out of Work.&#39;&quot;<br><br>I does not seem to me that minorities ingratiating themselves to the &quot;Anglo-Aussie&quot; majority by ridiculing their own ethnic groups is much of a step forward as suggested by the writer. The jokes are originating from the oppressed instead of the oppressor, but the lack of respect for non-Anglos in Australia remains.EJHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733065242432823626.post-82497397955170619082009-10-31T22:26:59.480+09:002009-10-31T22:26:59.480+09:00Here&#39;s my response. When you support the one-s...Here&#39;s my response. When you support the one-state &quot;solution&quot; you are condeming Palestinians to generations of despair and suffering, but that suffering and despair enables you to self-focused activism. Anyone who supports &quot;one-state&quot; is either consumed with suffering and tragedy or simply an extremist who rejects compromise, and NOT a moderate. So why waste my time talking to you.<br><br>Gaza IS NOT the issue. The issue is peace, something the Hamas terrorists (and the settler terrorists) do not want. When we have peace, we will have a safe Gaza and West Bank and Palestine State.<br><br>but I don&#39;t think you want peace at all. You want victory over the Jews and the Israelis and you won&#39;t stop fighting until you turn back the clock to 1922. It ain&#39;t going to happen.<br><br>And don&#39;t wrap yourself up with the suffering of my people. It&#39;s people like you who have enabled the Israeli extremists to achieve what they have.<br><br>You asked, I answered.<br><br>Ray Hanania<br>www.RadioChicagoland.comRay Hananiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190noreply@blogger.com